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1) Norma
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Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts.
It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.
Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's free, gorging on an online riot of canceled soap operas, message boards, and grocery store focus groups. Transcribing chatter for fifty cents a minute. It's all of humanity-grim, funny, and desperate-wafting...
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Agatha Christie meets Arsenic and Old Lace
A classic Golden Age puzzle with a character driven plot
Cerridwen Evan Jones has a very brief to do list:
Finish and publish her novel
Avoid the head of the local historical society
Make sure Great Uncle Teddy is wearing pants
But when her historic neighborhood is rocked by the discovery of a decades old murder, her list gets a little longer:
Find out who broke into her house
Solve...
4) All In
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The third noir mystery featuring P.I. Lennox Cooper, a smart detective, a smart poker player, and one of today's boldest heroines in the sorority of lonesome gumshoes.
Flinty ex-cop, poker-playing, private detective, Lennox Cooper stands alone in championing Tomek Jagoda, darling son of a Portland crime family, accused of murdering his high-living girlfriend.
The cops have proof that will send Tomek to prison for life, and prosecuting the case...
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A well-known, powerful family with a shocking secret. Two journalists, living one hundred years apart, both digging for the truth. It's 1920 on Minneapolis's Newspaper Row and aspiring journalist Bizzie Johansen is ready to do whatever it takes to make it - even if that means going undercover. She'll come face to face with characters who will both challenge and frighten her, befriend and encourage her as she digs for the truth. But, when she stumbles...
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A murder on summer resort Nor'easter Island? Never, and especially not in the quiet season, when all the tourists have gone home and only 1000 or so year-round islanders stay through the winter. The death of Joel Berliner, an island fisherman whose body washed ashore on Laughing Gull Beach, was a surprise, but not totally unexpected. The island buzz was that Joel, who had had some mental health issues years back, committed suicide.
But Island...
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The problems started right off. Main one was that it was Murder, not Suicide.Even though the room was locked from the inside and had no windows the assailant could escape through.The yeoman on duty hadn't seen or heard anyone.And the murder occurred in broad daylight. Even though it wasn't discovered until the next day when the cleaners came in.That's when I got the mission call.Not that they expected someone with long white-blonde hair to solve their...
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Hollywood columnist Meredith Ogden's home and life with L.A. Special Cases Detective T.K. Raymond and their three-year-old is uprooted when he investigates a decades-old murder of a young starlet whose desiccated body is discovered in California's high desert. In her purse is a crumbling note bearing Raymond's and another man's name. Investigating the murder, and how his name is connected, Raymond travels take him from the wind-swept desert to vintage...
10) As a Favor
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A favor for her ex-husband leads Jill Smith to a blood-soaked crime scene Someone is stealing hubcaps from the Berkeley police department. An afternoon spent chasing the petty thief leaves beat cop Jill Smith exhausted, flustered, and in no mood to talk when her ex-husband Nat calls asking for a favor. A colleague of his at the county welfare department, Anne Spaulding, is missing. Jill doesn't care about her husband's new crush, but a note of fear...
11) Wedding Woes
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Wedding Woes - Long Version
After the death of her mother, Professor Maggie McManus accepts a hospitality instructor position at Panhandle State University, River Town, Florida. Growing up in a small sidewalk community in Massachusetts, doors were left unlocked, and children were free to walk to school and the library unsupervised. She quickly learns small communities are not created equal. Experiencing bullying firsthand, she discovers there are...
12) Antique Legacy
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While the almost castle crumbles around them, Alicia desperately searches for the answers she wants and needs. Every creepy room demands a thorough search. Someone is trying to kill her, and she doesn't even know why, let alone, who. Each room she searches is a challenge and each is either fascinating or horrifying. The huge cat now follows her everywhere, even into closed rooms. If she can discover his secret before one of the murder attempts...
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Rebecca Stone drops by a party at the Rascals trailer in the trailer park where they all live in Ocean Beach Ca. She runs into Tall Paul a officer in the club who introduces her to Nicole his girlfriend. Nicole knows of Rebecca's reputation as a girl that finds things. Over beers Rebecca learns that Nicole is being stalked. She has concerns about her wellbeing and doesn't want Tall Paul involved in solving whoever it is making Nicoles life so creepy....
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In a bid to heal from the grief of a personal loss, forensic genealogist, RaeJean Hunter, takes on a straightforward case -identify human remains found on a nearby college campus, believed to be the 180-year-old remains of Mary Rogers, a woman who died mysteriously in 1841 and was believed to have been buried in the nearby cemetery that had washed away. It should be simple enough, a project to get her back in the game. Unfortunately, it quickly becomes...
15) Mercy
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I was a nice girl with a big heart.It wasn't my choice to become a victim and I'm absolutely certain that I don't want to become another statistic. I did what any rational survivor with an ounce of dignity does, I learned how to protect myself.But then, my trainer introduced me to a society I didn't even know existed. One that can give me vengeance.If only that nosey FBI agent would leave me alone.My name is Mercy, but you should expect none of that...
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Oh Dear Silvia by Dawn French, the celebrated English actress, bestselling author, and comedian, is the clever, touching, and compelling story of one mysterious woman trapped in a coma after a fall from a balcony.
Now, lying unconscious in a hospital bed, Silvia is plagued by a stream of often funny and sometimes poignant visits from friends and family, each of whom knows a different piece of the puzzle that is Silvia Shute.
And, as she...
17) Stone Cold
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Detective Rebecca Watson is tracking a vicious serial killer in Eugene Falls, Florida. As a distraction, she's dragged back into court for the retrial of a man convicted of murdering his girlfriend five years earlier. His defense attorney will use any means to get his client freed, including uncovering old wounds from Watson's past.As the case takes a few hard turns, nothing can prepare her for the world she's about to encounter, the past that haunts...
18) Swimsuit Body
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New York Times–bestselling author Eileen Goudge blends mystery and romance in a captivating new novel featuring intrepid property manager Tish Ballard, whose client's beachfront home becomes a headline-making homicide scene With a Hollywood movie about to start filming in the California seaside town of Cypress Bay, Tish Ballard, owner of Rest Easy Property Management, welcomes her first celebrity tenant. Delilah Ward isn't your typical beautiful,...
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The battle is not over. After stopping the evil doctor Kessler, Gwen and Mickie have to cross over his victims to clean up his mess. But shadows are still lingering, engulfing spirits. That, together with a vision of Kessler talking to someone he addresses as "master" makes the supernatural duo understand the man they fought so hard to bring down is not the one in control here. To make matters worse, Gwen's mother who came back to life in the most...
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Finales de los años setenta. Chabot, una pequeña localidad rural del sur de Mississippi. Larry es un adolescente solitario y triste que se pasa todo el día encerrado en su cuarto leyendo libros de Stephen King. Su padre, dueño del taller en la carretera 11, dice que es un negado para la mecánica. Una mañana, camino del colegio, recogen en la carretera a una mujer negra y a su hijo, Silas, que, desde hace unos días, viven como refugiados en...
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